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"Revised and updated to include the winner of the 2020 presidential election, this photo-filled and fact-packed book is a timely reference. Key features include: Information about the 2021 president-elect and the 2020 election results, a brand-new thematic spread on the impeachment process and its history, revised terminology around the language of slavery and analysis of early presidents who benefitted from and relied on enslaved labor, comprehensive...
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In May 1787 delegates from across the country--including George Washington, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin--gathered in Philadelphia and, meeting over the course of a sweltering summer, created a new framework for governing: the Constitution of the United States.
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Explores the history of the concept of the separation of governmental powers in the United States, and briefly describes each of the three governmental bodies, what each does, and how they work to balance each other. Includes color photographs, sources for further information, a glossary, and an index.
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Provides an in-depth, heavily researched biography of Donald Trump, detailing his youth, ascension to inheriting a real estate empire, his unlikely political career, and his eventual election as forty-fifth president of the United States. Contains an extensive family tree and is punctuated throughout by quotes, tweets, and photographs.
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A New York Times best-seller, Founding Brothers is an engrossing work of nonfiction from National Book Award-winner Joseph J. Ellis. It is a book that uncovers the substance behind many of our most cherished historical tales. Here are six fascinating, well-researched chapters involving such icons as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Each chapter illuminates a particular occurrence that helped determine
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